Even more devastating was the response to his first and only solo show, which he arranged himself.
When Riener returned, he arranged himself upside down in a cradle that had been formed by two strips of plastic tied together, his bib now obscuring his face.
In the midst of all this vitality, the quietude of Purcell's Fantasia "Upon one note" (1680) – a favourite of Martland's which he arranged himself for brass quintet, but was here played by strings, led sensuously by Thomas Gould – provided a still moment for reflection.
And when we finish our cigarettes and stomp the stubs against the sidewalk, he goes back inside and arranges himself like a sphinx behind the counter, while I, who should be flagging down a taxi or heading toward the subway, call the elevator and press the button to the seventh floor.
When enough sheets have been formed, he arranges them himself, like pieces of puzzles, into large, sometimes mural-size units to be hung in supple, draped, cascading swags on a wall, as in the 2006 piece "Between Earth and Heaven," on view in the African galleries at the Met.
Among his other recordings are Getting Xperimental over U, and Mack the Knife, an album of Kurt Weill songs that he produced and arranged himself.
The funeral he arranged for himself was an act no ordinary politician would try to follow.
The strategy, as he understood it, was to arrange himself on his bedroom's carpeted floor with the inside of his knee on the floor and his calf and foot at as close to a perfect ninety-degree angle to his thigh as he could manage.
He had just enough time to arrange himself before the man sealed the entrance with a wooden door that was resting nearby.
